Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Jenny (Amanda Bynes) has just graduated from high school. But, to her infinite lament, she has never had a boyfriend. This seems very odd, of course, since she is beautiful and fun. The truth is, she never lets anyone get close, especially not longtime "friend" Ryan (Jonathan Howell). Then, too, she is stuck on a pop singer, Jason (Chris Carmack) and daydreams endlessly of his love. Her quirky parents (dad is Fred Willard) don't give very good advice, either. Now, the gal who has set her sights on starting a pre-med program in the fall has landed a job on an island resort for the summer. Off Jenny goes, along with Ryan and, to her chagrin, high school nemesis Alexis (Jamie-Lyn Sigler). Lo and behold, superstar Jason comes to the same island for a bit of R and R! He even notices Jenny when she trips in front of him, accidentally. Later that night, at a party, Jason gets ill and falls off a boat. Jenny, a trained lifeguard, pushes down a life raft and jumps in, too. Saving his life, the duo float all night and in the morning, land on a deserted island. Or is it? Maybe not, but Jason's leg is hurt and he can't walk. Therefore, since this is a big opportunity for Jenny to get close to the singer, she tries to keep Jason from finding out that the island really isn't uninhabited. How long will it last? This is a fun film, definitely enhances by Bynes winning personality and looks. She has a quirky sense of humor (see the wonderful What a Girl Wants) and lights up this film with ease. The other cast members are fine, too, but not necessarily in the same category as Bynes. The setting, naturally, is lovely and sunny while the costumes and other film amenities are top-notch. The script, too, is lively and humorous and so is the direction. In short, if you love romantic comedy, check this one out. Although the cast is quite young, the tale has a universal appeal for dedicated fans of the genre.

When I rent this tape, I thought it's gonna be a wonderful movie, with the features of actors such as Amanda Byrne and Chris Carmack. Boy, aren't I mistaken.The movie is way too bizarre. It started off with both Jenny Taylor (Amanda Byrne) & Jason Masters (Chris Carmack) 'stranded' in an uninhibited island, while actually there were just at the other side of the island. Jenny knew about this but she didn't tell Jason. Why? I don't know.. But based on the movie, it's because she wanted to spend time with Jason all by herself. Talk about being stingy, huh..By now you wouldn't have known how Jenny can end up with her best friend, Ryan Howell (Jonathan Bennett), right? But as I said earlier, this is a bizarre movie. All of a sudden, in the Caribbean Island, a place that seldom has a sudden change in the weather, was suddenly ht by a storm.So the brave Ryan took him upon himself to help Jenny. That was weird. Because I think if Jenny was his mother, he wouldn't know that Jenny was in trouble. Or the best that he could do is to tell the authorities concerned about the missing of her mom. Haha ..Yeah yeah, just like all other teen movie, they finally were together. However illogical it could be, however weird that the events turned out to be, they still managed to be with each other. Funny, huh? It'd be nice if the love in real life could be that simple as in the movie.So, a score of 3 out of 10. All credit to Amanda who tried his best to make this movie at least a watchable one.

That's a shame that movie is on post production,or something like that.When I watched it I liked it.I liked it because I'm a Amanda Bynes fan.But,well,I really hoped the movie were more better.The movie just missed something.The whole wrecked on lonely island thing...It's OK,but when the lonely island come to light that is just other side of curort.That I wasn't expected.For example. I was thinking they really was wrecked on lonely island,and I thanked not just they two: a rock star and Amanda,but i thanked that her be-lover also,it has to be a love triangle for my opinion. Movie was OK..but i think it could be much better.

My friend CK asked me to go along for this movie, as he's a huge Amanda Bynes fan, having followed her television series What I Like About You, and both of us agreed upon her comic potential in She's The Man, which was a pretty fun gender bender movie.With a title like that, there's nothing too cerebral about Lovewrecked. No, it's not a doomed spoof of the Love Boat, but the teenage romance here is quite as cheesy and predictable. Bynes stars as Jenny Riley, and we're quickly introduced to her character's idol worshipping of screen pop singing sensation Jason Masters (Chris Carmack), going totally bonkers during his concert, much to the detriment of best buddy Ryan (Jonathan Bennett).During their summer job at a Caribbean resort, she finds herself caught in a man-overboard situation with Jason, and the two of them thus began a Robinson Crusoe life - until of course Jenny discovers that they aren't really shipwrecked on some remote island at all, and keeps this as a secret from Jason. When her love rival participates in her little charade, it becomes like the reality TV series Survivor, where each have to outplay, outwit and outlast the other in order to get the affections of the lone pop star.Directed by Randal Kleiser of Grease and The Blue Lagoon fame, this movie too had Bynes strut around mostly in bikinis, the apparel of choice for any girl working at a resort / stuck in a desert island. Bynes still haven't lost her comic timing, however here she's let down by an extremely weak story, and an even more disappointing lack of laughs from the stilted comedy. There are comedic situations which either make you laugh, or make you laugh from how bad it is. Sadly Lovewrecked had more of the latter, and for one scene, had to rely on the toilet humour favourite of the fart sequence.As for the other characters, they're basically all one dimensional. The catty love rival, the handsome scheming nice-on-outside-unethical-on-inside pop star, the pining buddy, the mean resort manager, the horny colleague, the arrogant star assistants and minders, the list goes on. The Riley parents were such throwaway characters that you wonder if their inclusion was for the sake of extending the run time, which clocks in at a short 86 minutes.So unless you're a true blue Bynes fan, or have that penchant for teenage romance movies, do steer clear or you'll find yourself getting pretty bored at predictability.